I have practiced law since October 1993. This site exists for one narrow purpose: to explain how to read IRS transcripts. The account transcript, the wage and income transcript and the return transcript are the IRS's own records of what was filed, assessed, paid, held and enforced. Most people never look at them. That is a mistake, because the codes on those pages usually explain the letter sitting on your kitchen table.
The explanations here are built from the IRS's own references, chiefly Document 6209 and the Internal Revenue Manual, and from the Internal Revenue Code. Where the IRS reference says something precisely, I try to say it the same way in plain English. Where a code can mean more than one thing, I say so.
Because the IRS is a federal agency, federal tax representation is not limited to the states where a lawyer is licensed. The power of attorney the IRS uses, Form 2848, is the same form everywhere.
If you want to talk about what your own transcripts show, call (813) 229-7100 or see the contact page.